The National Conference of Personal Managers inducted Thompson into the Personal Managers Hall of Fame on May 12, 2016.   Thompson was also honored on September 19, 2013, by the Talent Managers Association with the prestigious Seymour Heller Award for Lifetime Achievement in Talent Management. These two 

entertainment industry awards are the highest honors a personal manager can receive for representing talent.

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Thompson was Knighted in Rome, Italy on May 20, 2017. Grand Prior, Prince Lorenzo de' Medici, sponsored Thompson, an American of Italian Heritage, into the prestigious Ordine di San Martino del Monte delle Beatitudini (the Order of Saint Martin of Mount of the Beatitudes) as a Patron of the Arts and Protector of the Most Needy and presided at the Investiture Mass of Knighthood at the Chiesa di San Silvestro al Quirinale (Church of San Silvestro at Quirinal Hill). See the Investiture Video. Click on the following icon to view the Official Announcement and Program:

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Thompson is running for United States Congress as a Republican for California's 32nd District.

Visit: www.LarryThompsonForCongress.com.

 

Thompson also ran for United States Congress as an Independent for California's 37th District in March 2020. 

 

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Thompson and his team of managers have guided the careers of over 200 artists including, among others, William Shatner, Drew Barrymore, Mariska Hargitay, Jason Bateman, David Hasselhoff, Scott Hamilton, Cindy Crawford,  Joan Rivers, Shannen Doherty,  Linda Evans, Cicely Tyson, Barry White, Tatum O'Neal, Donna Mills, Linda Blair, Bruce Boxleitner, Justine Bateman, Alan Thicke, Donna Dixon, William Devane, Richard Pryor, Tori Spelling, Robert Blake, Scott Baio, David Hunt, Melissa Rivers, Merle Haggard, Iman, Steve Guttenberg, Sally Kellerman, Delta Burke, and ​Sonny & Cher.  Thompson currently manages, among others, the careers of William Shatner, whom he has represented for the past 41 years, Donna Mills, Taylor Ann Thompson, and Prince Lorenzo de' Medici.

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Veteran Manager Larry A. Thompson Reflects on His A-List Client List



As a motivational lecturer and author, Thompson's bestselling self-help book, Shine: A Powerful 4-Step Plan For Becoming A Star In Anything You Do (McGraw Hill – March 1, 2006/Paperback – November 8, 2004/Hardcover) serves as the catalyst for Project Rise and Shine, (www.ProjectRiseandShine.com), an organization he founded whereby successful stars, who serve as role models to so many fans, can use their power of celebrity to uplift and motivate others to become stars in their own lives.  This living community provides daily personal guidance and original inspiring programming through a dynamic online networking environment, a series of motivational workshops, and personal affirmative stories directly from celebrities themselves.  Thompson is presently preparing his next book, Hollywood Is Gone With The Wind.



​Thompson, a former co-owner of New World Pictures, is not only a premier Motion Picture and Television producer but also one of the industry's most knowledgeable and experienced financiers and packagers of film and television projects.  Thompson's diversified background has made him and the Larry A. Thompson Organization one of the most hallmark names in the show business community.

  
He started his career in show business as in-house counsel for Capitol Records where, during the famed Beatles breakup, Thompson negotiated the solo artist contracts for each of the individual Beatles, and, by the 1970s, he was a founding partner in the entertainment law firm of Thompson, Shankman, Bond and Moss.  For five years he packaged movie and television projects and represented the careers of many prominent actors and performers.  He also orchestrated the $300-million-dollar merger between Harrahs and Holiday Inn. When the law partnership was amicably dissolved, Thompson created the LARRY A. THOMPSON ORGANIZATION, a company devoted to film production and personal management of talent.



Thompson, with two other lawyers, Harry Sloan and Larry Kuppin, subsequently purchased New World Pictures from Roger Corman for $16.5 million dollars and immediately took the company public.  He sold his New World equity position in 1983 and refocused his attention to independent film production and talent management.



In 2001, Thompson Executive Produced two 1-hour UPN Network Specials titled Iron Chef USA: Showdown In Las Vegas and Iron Chef USA: Holiday Showdown based on the very popular Japanese show Iron Chef.



His highly acclaimed 2003 Lifetime television movie A Date With Darkness: The Trial And Capture Of Andrew Luster was the third highest cable movie of the year and received rave reviews.

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His movie Little Girl Lost: The Delimar Vera Story, which aired on Lifetime Movie Network on August 17, 2008, was the highest-rated, two-hour movie in Lifetime Movie Network’s 10-year history. In 2009, the movie garnered six Imagen Awards Nominations, and it won two of the awards: one for Best Primetime Television Program and the other for Best Actor/Television – Hector Bustamante.
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Thompson Co-Executive Produced, with Joel Gallen of Tenth Planet Productions, the Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers. The critically acclaimed special aired on August 9, 2009, on Comedy Central.



​Thompson, who has produced multiple bio-pics on iconic figures including Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Lucy & Desi, Sonny & Cher, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, produced a 2-hour special production for the Bio Channel on Scott Hamilton titled Scott Hamilton: Return To The Ice. He produced the inspirational program in association with 44 Blue Productions. It premiered to glowing reviews on March 8, 2010.

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​Thompson's critically-acclaimed mov​ie Amish Grace, based on the true story of the 2006 Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, schoolhouse shooting, had its world premiere on Lifetime Movie Network on Palm Sunday, March 28, 2010.  More than 4 million viewers tuned i​n to Amish Grace starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tammy Blanchard, and Matt Letscher. The movie broke all Network records, becoming the highest-rated and most-watched original movie in the history of Lifetime Movie Network.



He Executive Produced the Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff, which aired on Comedy Central on August 15, 2010.  It was the highest-rated show for the night in ALL of TV among males 18-34.



Thompson Executive Produced a one-woman comedy special with Joan Rivers titled Don’t Start With Me. It aired on Showtime on November 15, 2012.

 

He produced with Michael Wilson the reality series Celebrity Videos. 



Thompson, in 2012, produced the high-profile Lifetime Television movie event, Liz & Dick, starring Lindsay Lohan and Grant Bowler.  The movie is about the epic love story between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.  It was shot in Los Angeles.  The movie was written by Peabody and Humanitas Award Winner, Christopher Monger, (Temple Grandin), and was directed by Lloyd Kramer (The Five People You Meet In Heaven). It was broadcast on Lifetime Television on November 25, 2012.  It drew an audience of 3.5 million people and was nominated for two Emmys in hairstyling and makeup.  

 

He was an Executive Producer on the 22nd Annual Movieguide Awards, which aired on ReelzChannel on March 1, 2014.  It starred, among many others, Duck Dynasty's Korie and Willie Robertson, The Bible's Roma Downey and Mark Burnett, American Idol's Jordin Sparks, James Denton, AJ Michalka, Corbin Bernsen, with performances by Billy Ray Cyrus, Jacob Latimore, Richie Sambora, and evangelist Joni Eareckson Tada who sang the Oscar-nominated (yet rescinded) song "Alone Yet Not Alone."

 

Thompson was an Executive Producer on the 23rd Annual Movieguide Awards, which aired on ReelzChannel on February 21, 2015.  Hosted by Bill Engvall, the special starred Diogo Morgado, Korie Robertson, Corbin Bernsen, Jacob Latimore, Cory Oliver, Billy Boyd, Pat Boone, with all-star performances by Stevie Wonder, Ledisi, Take 6, Lecrae, and many others.

 

He was an Executive Producer on the 24th Annual Movieguide Awards, which aired on ReelzChannel on February 22, 2016.  Hosted by Joe Mantegna and Sadie Robertson, the special starred David Oyelowo, Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin, Abigail Breslin, Jane Seymour, Ricky Schroder, Tamar Braxton, Kevin Sorbo, John Schneider, Karen Abercrombie, Ken Wales, Ernie Hudson, Gatlin Green, Sloane Morgan Siegel, Alyvia Alyn Lind, and many others, with all-star performances by Trace Adkins and Andra Day. 



Many additional motion picture, television projects, and book packages are in various stages of development:

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1. The Prayer Box - Based on a real Prayer Box found on a hiking trail, this heartfelt drama follows several seemingly unrelated stories in Nashville, TN as they eventually become lovingly interlinked through the power of answered prayers.

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2. The Keep - a screenplay written by Jeff Tait and Mary Lambert and to be directed by Mary Lambert is about a 13-year-old boy who believes his reclusive neighbor is keeping a young girl chained in his basement. In trying to save the girl, the boy unlocks buried memories that make him question everything he and his family have ever known.

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3. Eternal Love: Taj Mahal - a sweeping story of eternal love and friendship, such as the world has never known, lies shrouded in the mists of history. Much of that story has been forgotten and become blurred in the memory of men, but it has left behind a symbol of such rare beauty and unwavering devotion that it can never be forgotten. The symbol is the Taj Mahal.

 

4.  The Boston Strangler - a screenplay written by Scott Kosar (The Machinist) - set in the iconic, "Mad Men" world of the 1960s, a disturbed husband and father would rape and strangle 13 women in a city gripped by fear. We now have the opportunity to bring this twisted, iconic, American crime story to a modern audience with the definitive movie of Albert DeSalvo's brutal crimes, his dysfunctional and crumbling marriage, his controversial confessions, the manhunt, and recent, high-profile case closure.

 

5.  With Michael Wilson, Thompson is shopping to networks a completed sketch comedy series pilot titled The Men’s Room. 

 

6.  On the fast track, Thompson is preparing the high-profile, faith-based 4-hour miniseries 7 Shades of Sin.

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7.  Harry's Back - a screenplay written by Michael Norell about Harry Houdini finally returning from the grave as he promised.

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8.  Living up to his reputation as the “King of the Biopics,” Thompson is presently developing a major Television Event on the life of Oprah Winfrey. 

 

9.  Missing Mona Lisa - Thompson is presently in pre-production on the Motion Picture, Missing Mona Lisa. The script by Mark J. Hudelson is the romanticized true story of a lovable, grief-stricken, Italian simpleton, who while working in the Louvre, becomes beguiled by the Mona Lisa, and believing in his heart she is homesick for Italy, steals the masterpiece, and smuggles her home with him to Florence. What is a lovable gesture to Vincenzo Peruggia turns out to be the greatest art heist in history!

 

As a book packager, Thompson packaged The Ether series.  The Ether: Vero Rising is the first book in a franchise of three by Laurice E. Molinari and published on February 4, 2014 by ZonderKidz. It's about a 12-year-old boy who leads an ordinary suburban life until he discovers he's actually a guardian angel. The second book in the series, Pillars of Fire, was published on December 23, 2014.  The final book in the trilogy, The Dragon's Descent, was published on January 5, 2016. Link to Laurice's website: (www.lauricemolinari.com/) and link to The Ether: Vero Rising trailer: (www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rfVTHJe9s0)  

 

Thompson also has developed and packaged with Joan Rivers a series of murder mystery novels titled The Red Carpet Murder Mysteries.  The first book in the series, Murder At The Academy Awards®, written by Joan Rivers with Jerrilyn Farmer, was published in hardcover by Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, on January 27, 2009.  The Red Carpet Murder Mysteries is also being developed as a franchise of television movies.

 

Thompson also developed the book Men Are Stupid And They Like Big Boobs:  A Woman’s Guide to Beauty Through Plastic Surgery, written by Joan Rivers with Valerie Frankel.  It was published in hardcover by Pocket Books on December 30, 2008.

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On Broadway, Thompson produced William Shatner’s one-man show, Shatner’s World…We Just Live in It, at The Music Box, a Shubert Organization Theatre, February 16, 2012 – March 4, 2012.  The show toured 15 cities in the United States and finished on April 19, 2012.  The U.S. 2012-2013 tour started November 8, 2012 and ran through January 26, 2013.  The show continues to tour in 2016.  Thompson filmed a version of the show as a television special in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on December 8, 2012 titled Shatner's World.  A further version of that show with additional, special content was exhibited by Fathom Entertainment in 635 theaters nationally on April 24, 2014.

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Thompson, his wife, Kelly, their daughter, Taylor, and son, Trevor, live in Beverly Hills, California.​

 

Personal Quotes:



"See you on Life's Red Carpet."

 

"You can't get hit by lightning if you're not willing to stand out in the rain."

"If you didn't invite me to the take-off, don't invite me to the crash."

"A friend is someone you can share your 'good' news with."

"The Four Elements essential for Stardom are: Talent, Rage, Team, and Luck."

"Open big or you're dead."

"Hollywood is not only a sign - it's a state of mind."

"You can learn to be lucky."

 

"If you let a monkey climb a coconut tree high enough, he will eventually show his ass."

 

"You must have a 'Rage' to succeed - an absolute, tunnel-vision, maniacal focus on fulfillment and success."

 

"Stardom begins at the intersection of Humility and Egomania."

 

"The representation of talent goes through 3 stages:  First, they listen to you.  Second, you listen to them.  And lastly, no one listens to anyone."

 

"There is a little of George Bailey in all of us.  We all on occasions have to be shown and reminded how special we are."

 

"Hollywood is the only town where people pay other people to plant in the media untrue, positive stories about themselves, yet they believe every story they read about other people in the same media... especially if the other person's story is more positive than their stories."

 

 

See Larry Thompson's appearance on Entertainment Tonight.

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